Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew who he was." Apparently, also, the newshawks did not have access to the records...
When, three weeks ago, a British court awarded Russian Princess Youssoupov $126,800 on the ground that the cinema Rasputin libeled her, it opened Hollywood's eyes to a vista of disastrous possibilities. If superior courts uphold her claim, all the connections or descendants of famed characters in all the historical pictures, which are currently the cinema's most profitable fashion, might sue for damages. But the Rothschild descendants who are today one of Europe's most potent banking families are not likely to drag Producer Zanuck into court. Although the picture treats the founder...
...Overseers in 1865. This change was hailed by Clifford as a progressive and important step. In his address to the new president lie said, "Now for the first time in its history, the college stands alone--unsupported by the state--and dependent only upon itself to justify its claim to the lofty position it ought to occupy among our institutions of learning, of which it is the eldest, and should be the most advanced, beneficent, and renowned...
...Government, which has thus far sided almost entirely with the A. F. of L. and has encouraged its leaders to believe that the Government wants to see the A. F. of L. supreme and no other employee organizations except thost affiliated with the National Union. Indeed, the organizations claim this openly in their missionary work. There was a time when the outside organizers were not permitted on the premises of companies which had shop unions, but with the help of the NRA, the electioneering has been more or less legalized...
...Normano, who came to Harvard last year as a visiting lecturer, was arrested in Cambridge on January 5, 1933 at the instigation of Baron von Tippleskirch, the German Consul. Hitler authorities claim he is Dr. Isaak Lewin, German banker who absconded in 1929, and was traced to South America. He was arrested in Brazil, but was discharged before the extradition papers were received from Germany...